SEC Proposes New ESG Disclosures for Funds and Investment Advisers

June 15, 2022

In May 2022, the SEC proposed two form and rule amendments seeking to enhance and standardize disclosures related to ESG factors considered by funds and advisers and to also expand the regulation of the naming of funds with an ESG focus.

The SEC proposal would impact registered investment companies, business development companies (referred to together as "funds") and registered investment advisers and certain exempt reporting advisers.

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The proposed changes would amend the rules and forms to:

  • Require specific disclosures on ESG strategies in fund prospectuses, annual reports, and adviser brochures

  • Introduce a standard table for ESG funds to disclose information allowing investors to compare ESG funds quickly

  • Require certain environmentally focused funds to disclose greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of their portfolio investments; funds that disclose they do not consider GHG emissions as part of their ESG strategy would not be expected to report this metric.

 

The SEC proposal further identifies three categories to classify ESG funds: Integration Funds, ESG-Focused Funds, and Impact Funds.

 

Integration Funds

  • These funds integrate both ESG factors and non-ESG factors in their investment decisions such that ESG factors are not considered dispositive

  • These funds would be required to disclose how ESG factors guide their investment process, to avoid overstating the role of ESG factors

  • Integration Funds that consider GHG emissions would be required to disclose how the fund considers GHG emissions, including the methodology and data sources consulted by the fund.

 

ESG-Focused Funds

  • These funds focus on ESG factors and would be required to submit detailed disclosures

  • Certain funds would be obligated to provide information about their ESG strategies, including any inclusionary or exclusionary screens, and information about the impacts they are pursuing

  • ESG-Focused Funds that have environmentally focused investment strategies would be required to disclose additional information on the GHG emissions associated with

their investments, including the carbon footprint and the weighted average carbon intensity of their portfolio.

 

Impact Funds

  • A subset of the ESG-Focused Funds pursuing a specific ESG impact

  • These funds would be required to disclose how it measures progress (in qualitative and quantitative terms) and summarize achievements towards its stated ESG goal.

 


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Detailed Guidance on certain KPIs

  • Disclose the percentage of ESG voting matters during the reporting period

  • ESG-focused funds that consider environmental factors have to disclose (i) carbon footprints; and (ii) weighted average carbon intensity (WACI)

  • Scope 3 emissions (Scope 3 emissions are the result of activities from assets not owned or controlled by the reporting organization, but that the organization indirectly impacts in its value chain) need to be disclosed separately, if available or estimable in a reasonable manner

 

 

Proposed Amendments to Form ADV

 

Part 1A

  • The SEC proposed to amend Part 1A of Form ADV to identify SEC advisers employing ESG strategies, allowing SEC examiners to identify candidates for future examinations to help safeguard against "greenwashing"

  • Since Form ADV is a public filing, this information will also permit the public to better identify advisers providing various levels of ESG strategies

  • Item 5 on Form ADV (separately managed accounts) and Item 7 (private funds) would be amended to require an adviser to report whether it considers ESG factors as part of one or more strategies and, if so, whether that strategy is "ESG Integration," "ESG Focused" or "ESG Impact."

  • Items 6 (description of business) and 7 (financial industry affiliations) would be require that advisers report whether they themselves act as an ESG consultant or have external consultant or service provider.

  

Part 2A

  • Item 8.D. would require an adviser to disclose ESG factors, if any, it considers for each significant investment strategy and how the adviser incorporates the factors when advising its clients. The adviser would also be required to disclose the criterion or methodology it employs to include or exclude certain securities, including any internal or third-party framework, screen or index

  • Item 10 (other industry activities and affiliations) would require advisers to disclose material relationships they or their control persons have with ESG consultants and service providers

  • Item 17 (proxy voting) would be amended to require advisers with specific voting policies that include ESG considerations to disclose them and how they consider them.

 

 

Fund Names Rule ( Rule 35d-1)

  • On May 25, 2022, the SEC approved a proposal to expand the Names Rule to cover funds that suggest they invest in assets that have specific characteristics, such as “growth,” “value,” or one or more environmental, social, or governance (ESG) factors

  • This Rule would curtail the adoption of names that suggest ESG investment strategies by ESG “integration funds.”

  • The proposal would expand the Rule’s 80% investment policy requirement to apply to any fund name containing terms that suggest the fund focuses on investments that have particular characteristics (e.g., “growth,” “value” or terms indicating that the fund’s investment decisions incorporate one or more ESG factors)

  • The proposal would require funds’ prospectus disclosure requirements to define the terms used in its name, including the criteria employed to select the investments described by the term

  • The rule prohibits the use of ESG or similar factors in a fund’s name if the factors do not play a central role in the fund’s strategy (so-called “integration funds”).

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We operate our sites in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and it is our policy not to knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 13. However, you should be aware that we assume that any communications submitted through email or an online transaction are from an adult.

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5.prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our Site policies;

6.notify you of important changes to our Site;

7.customize, measure, and improve our services, content, and third-party publications;

8.tell you about targeted marketing, service updates, and promotional offers based on your specific preferences (if you would prefer not to receive such communications you can use our Opt-Out email address: info@radientanalytics.com along with “Unsubscribe” in the subject line;

9.comply with applicable laws including, but not limited to, responding to legal requests;

10.compare your information for accuracy, and verify it with third parties;

11.create new services, features, and content; and

12.create analytics from aggregated or anonymized use of the Site.

Occasionally, we may conduct user surveys to learn how we can better serve you. These surveys are optional and if you choose to respond, your responses will be kept anonymous. The demographic information we collect in the registration process and through surveys is used to help us improve our services.

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We also provide your Personal Information when we have your consent for a specific reason such as processing a credit card payment with a credit card service company for your subscription registration. We may choose to make certain offers or services available to our users from third parties. If we do, during the registration process and at certain points thereafter in connection with specific offers we may ask you whether your Personal Information may be sent to third parties who have products, services and opportunities which may be useful to you. If you give your permission to allow third parties to contact you, your Personal Information (such as your contact information and other information collected during your visit to our Site) may be shared with data aggregators, marketers (possibly in the form of list rental), and other organizations. If you agree to allow a third-party to contact you for marketing purposes through our Site, you may later revoke such permission; however, if you want the third party to stop sending you marketing communications, you will need to contact the third party directly.

We may share aggregated or anonymized Personal Information with third parties to (i) improve our services, (ii) promote our services, or (iii) offer new services, analytical tools, or data. We may also share broad aggregate demographic data and related usage information with our business partners. This aggregate information does not contain any Personal Information that can identify an individual user.

Although advertisers may display advertisements of our services on other websites and we may request that they deliver those advertisements based on the presence of a cookie, we will not share any other information with the advertiser.

If your employer has subscribed on your behalf, your employer may provide us with limited Personal Information to enable your access. Your employer may also require us to provide information about your use of the services, for example how often you use the subscription that they have purchased for you. Under such circumstances, we may provide your employer with such personally identifiable information. We may also contact your employer if we have any issues with your compliance with the Terms of Use.

Risk Advisors may share your information if all or substantially all of our assets are acquired by or merged with another company, our company is reorganized, or our business changes. Under such circumstances, you expressly consent to Risk Advisors transferring your Personal Information to the new owner or successor entity so that it may continue to provide you with services. Where applicable, Risk Advisors will notify the appropriate agencies of such a transfer to comply with applicable data protection and privacy laws.

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Risk Advisors is committed to preventing the loss, misuse, and alteration of the personal information in our possession. However, as you know, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, and other users may abuse or misuse Personal Information that they collect from the Site. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your Personal Information or private communications will always remain private.

If you are paying with a credit card, payment transactions are conducted in a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) session, which encrypts all transaction data for transmittal in a format that helps reduce the chance of theft of the information. The website securely transmits your payment information to Stripe (stripe.com) which manages and provides approval for the transaction. While on a secure page, most modern browsers will let you know that you are in a secured session. Our servers are located in a secure, supervised environment.

Personalized areas of the Site are password-protected. Only you have access to these password-protected areas. Do not share your passwords with anyone. Risk Advisors will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or email. If you are using a computer that others have access to, always remember to log out, clear the cache, and close your browser window when leaving the Site.

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We may use IP addresses for various purposes, including:

Diagnosing service or technology problems.

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Studying how people use the Site and how we can improve it.

Reporting to advertisers about aggregate, but not individual, information derived from IP addresses.

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Cookies may be used on the Site in the following ways:

If you are a user, we may use cookies to access your stored account information automatically when you log on to the Site, in order to deliver a better and more personalized service. For instance, we may use cookies to allow you to access your account information automatically, as well as make changes to your Personal Information. Also, our search engines may use cookies to expedite your search for content or products.

We may use cookies to improve our services by making them more relevant to our users. The unique cookie that is given to each browser accessing Risk Advisors is used to determine your usage patterns and help us target content and ads based upon user interests.

We may use cookies to authenticate user identity and confirming where and whether you are currently logged in thereby making our Site more secure. Some of our advertisers use third-party networks to serve their advertisements on the Site. Often, these third-party advertising companies use cookies, Web beacons, and similar technologies to measure advertisement effectiveness. We do not control, nor do we have access to, their cookies or the information they obtain. Use of their tracking technology is subject to their own privacy policies. If you would like more information about the privacy policies of third-party advertising networks, including information on how to opt out of their tracking methods, check out http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.

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How Can You Protect Your Account?

While we do our best to protect Personal Information, Risk Advisors cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any password and/or account information. If your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately notify us and change your password. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online, especially when using a computer that other people can use also.

Blogs And Other Areas For Community Comments

Risk Advisors may offer you access to blog or other areas where you can comment with other users in a controlled environment within your entity. You acknowledge that any information you submit may be read, used, and collected by other users who access such areas. Risk Advisors does not make any representations or warranties as to the accuracy of such information. We are not responsible for any Personal Information you share in such areas of our Site.

Retention, Transfer, And Storage Of Your Personal Information To The U.S. And Other Countries

Your Personal Information may be stored in or transferred to any country where Risk Advisors or its partners or affiliates has offices, employees, or sub-contractors. By subscribing to our Site, you consent to the storage or transfer of your Personal Information outside your country of residence. Personal Information that you submit or that we collect through our Site is retained in accordance with Risk Advisors’ records retention and disposition policies. If you would like more information regarding this, you may contact the privacy policy contact listed in this policy.

General

We may amend this policy from time to time. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If you continue to use the subscription after the changes, you are deemed to have consented to such changes.

If we determine that the changes are material to this policy, we will notify you here, by e-mail, or by means of a notice on our homepage and if they require your express consent, we will provide you a reasonable period of notice to consent to such changes before they are effective. If you continue to use your subscription after any notice period of material changes, you will be deemed to have expressly consented to the privacy policy changes.

If you have any questions that are not answered online, you may write to us at:

Radient

369 Lexington Avenue #3136, 3rd Floor

New York, NY 10017

or email us: support@radientanalytics.com

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